Our popular Introducing Progress & Poverty session will be presented on two Tuesdays this month, May 13 and May 20. Either session will provide an overview of the main concepts in the Progress & Poverty book, in which Henry George identifies the principal reasons why poverty persists even as technical progress massively increases our capability …
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If you’re concerned about problems of poverty, lack of opportunity, and declining quality of life in Chicago and America, and hoping for a better future, you should attend our Introducing Progress & Poverty session on Tuesday, January 14, 5:30PM. Perhaps you already knew that these problems aren’t unique to our time, but were recognized in …
Another session of Introducing Progress & Poverty has been added to our schedule, with a focus on housing. We’ll start with a brief talk by Urban Environmentalists Illinois. Part of the YIMBY movement, they are are people working towards a future of cities and towns with abundant housing, work and play only a short bike or …
Returning to live meetings after the ‘demic interruption, HGS’ Political Economy Book Club is reading Love & Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas and the Start of a New Nation. Numerous copies of this 2005 book are available at Chicago Public Library and many suburban libraries, as well as inexpensively from various sources. Meeting will …
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David A. Wilson Video from Zoom Webinar David Wilson, author of the forthcoming book Towns Along the Q, will discuss the consequences of certain disastrous and discriminatory housing policies that he has become familiar with in the course of researching the topic, development of Chicago’s western suburbs along the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railway. Use …
Video from Zoom Webinar Illinois has some of the nation’s top pension debt and decades of irresponsible budget-making. Another session of the General Assembly has come to a close. Were legislators able or willing to make progress in finally addressing these decades-old long-standing issues, or were they once again swept under the rug and put …
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Council of Georgist Organizations has announced more on-line sessions, including two on assessment. Details are on their site. Previous sessions in the series may be found by searching “Council of Georgist Organizations” on youtube. Videos from prior annual conferences are linked here.
Adam Schuster March 23 2020 presentation has been cancelled. Illinois Forward: A 5-year plan for balanced budgets, declining debt and tax relief Adam Schuster suggests that raising taxes won’t cure the distress of our state and local governments. He presents a fair alternative. In his new Illinois Forward report, the Illinois Policy Institute’s Adam Schuster …
Introducing Progress & Poverty, a single session providing an overview of Henry George’s most important ideas and how they apply here and now, will be presented twice in January, on Thursdays January 9 and January 16. The first session will be done by veteran HGS instructor George Menninger, and the second by instructor Chuck Metalitz. …
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The Political Economy Book Club is reading Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. Discussions start Wednesday October 15 in a great downtown coffee house. Details here.
